Major Tod's Account of Greek, Parlhiaii, and Hindu Medals. 331 



been victorious, but aided by the king of Rum* the Bactrians renewed 

 hostilities against Gaj ; but, while he was in great danger, Mararej suddenly 

 died of indigestion. The period assigned for this is the year 3008 of 

 Yudhishthira. 



The relation is so mixed up with facts of a later date, that it seems, 

 among otiier matters, to contain something of the history of Antiochus and 

 his Hindu antagonist, Sophagasenus, who made his peace with him by a 

 present of money and elephants. 



Bayer says, we have already stated, that Sophagasenus was an Indian 

 king in the Bactrian regions near to Paronisus.t almost south ; that he was 

 rich, and surrendered his possessions willingly to Antiochus. 



Euthydemus seems to have despoiled him of the kingdom, by means of 

 Demetrius (if it was not Menander, as we might almost be tempted to 

 conjecture, by the similarity of the name Mamrej), and to have taken 

 from him all the countries to the west of the Indus, which had been a 

 province of Macedonia, by the Parthians called JVIiite India.t 



Raja Gaj was at last slain, and his issue compelled to flee to Salbhanpur, 

 in the Panjab; but this event is referred to the year 72, after % Vicramdditya. 



I have already adverted to the Sal-indra-jnir, the residence of a Scythic 

 prince of the Gete or Jit race, in the sixth century, and remarked that 

 the annals of Guzzerat, in speaking of the conquest of the celebrated 

 Cumdrpdl of AnhulwaraH Pattan, say that he carried his arms as far as 

 Salpur, towards the Sewaluk mountains. 



• Rumi pati, in the original. The term Rumi, applied to Syria, appears to have been used 

 long before the removal of the seat of government by Constantine. Alexander is always called 

 " Sekander Rumi;" and wherever the Roman sway prevailed, the country was termed 

 Roumiah. 



" Les Orientaux distinguent entre les anciens Grecs qui avaient leurs Rois ou leur gouverne- 

 ment particulier, et ceux qui etaient joints et soumis a I'empire Romain. Car ils appellent les 

 premiers Jounan, Jones, de Javan, et ils donnent a ceux-ci le nom de Roum." — D'Herbelol, 

 Art. Roum. 



t Robertson, quoting Polybius, note 15, page 309. See also Maurice's History, vol. i. 

 page 68, who has collected what has been written on Antiochus and the Hindu princes. 



X This answers well to Ghizni, or Gajni. 



§ Had it been seventy-two years before Vicrama, it would have answered for the period of 

 Eucratides, the son of Demetrius, undoubtedly following Menander. 



II In the twelftli century. 



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